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King Cashalot justifies its name
This has been a lucky week indeed for a Ladbrokes player whose details remain unrevealed, as they hit a massive progressive jackpot on the Microgaming-powered King Cashalot slot, and earned a hefty sum of GBP1.5 million.
The lucky slot belongs t...

Company veteran departs
According to the latest information from online gambling group Betfair, the company’s decade-long employee, an executive in charge of technical architecture and advanced technology, Matt Carter, decided to leave the company and make a career move which at this time remains unspecified.
In addition, it seems like another five members...

Black Monday features more indictments
The beginning of the week was marked by another severe anti-online gambling action in the U.S, where the local enforcement agencies raised new indictments and one of the Black Friday indictees, Bradley Franzen entered a guilty plea.
Franzen, aged 41, allegedly one of several "highly compensated payment processors" that...

Memorandum of Understanding inked
This week two major online gambling companies, Playtech and Gala Coral inked a Memorandum on Understanding, which confirms Playtech's advanced discussions with Gala Coral regarding a major software contract between the two companies. It has also been reported that these announcements boosted the price of Playtech shares.
A...

Going from land to online slots
This week’s news include reports of a deal closed between a UK-based game development studio Betlow Ltd and a major Australian slot design specialists Lightning Box Games which will develop and distribute of its popular land-based slot titles for online use in Europe and the UK, including titles such as Three Pandas, Super Happy...

Preparation for new Italian regulations on online casino gaming
Reacting fast to the announcements that Italy is to implement new regulations around Q3 2011, the Canadian software developer Chartwell Technology closed a big multi-year deal on internet casino games supply with Italy's online gambling giant Microgame, which will deploy Chartwell online casino co...

Casino-Aus presents new releases
Four new games have been launched by Microgaming, reported its licensee Casino-Aus.
The first is Multi-Player No Worries, an Aussie-themed online slot based on the original No Worries game, held in a Multi-Player environment, thus boosting the social side of the game.
Then there is Multip...

The acquisition is the biggest one of an Israeli internet gaming company
Two reports about the Israeli online social gaming start-up Playtika intrigued the industry this week – first, that Harrah's bought 51 percent of the company, worth some $80-$90 million, and second, that T f...

Cantor Gaming chief: The number of $18.5 million in question
A Senate Judiciary Committee learned this week from the president of mobile gambling technology firm Cantor Gaming, Lee Amaitis, that allowing guests to gamble via mobile devices in their hotel rooms and within the premises of licens...

No more funds to be sent to US players
As of recent, there have been reports that US affiliates and players are not receiving payments in a timely manner, and in confirmation of these reports, the reputable European e-payment company Quick Tender-UseMyWallet announced that it has stopped sending funds to US players.
The company made a public statement, in w...

Guoco issues a statement commenting on the refused bid
According to the announcement that came from the Malaysian-based property and investment holding firm Guoco Group Ltd, the enterprise will not make another offer to the Rank Group.
Rank previously turned down the 150p-per-share takeover bid made by Guoco, its largest investor, assessing it as “undervalu...

Israeli social games developer cost $85 million
It was reported this week that an initial 51 percent stake in an Israeli social games developer Playtika has been acquired by a Caesars Entertainment Corporation unit, Harrah's Casinos, for a consideration of $85 million. As a very young company founded by Robert Antokol and Uri Shahak, Playtika employs 15 people...

Slots can be romantic, as well
Need an idea how to pop the question? You can look up to a rather creative Massachusetts gentleman, who decided to put gambling and romance together and propose to his girlfriend in a rather unconventional way at th...

600 officers involved in the raids
This week’s reports from a Southeast European country Serbia involve much speculation about an anti-online gambling action one of whose goals is believed to be the elimination of corruption among some government officials.
The whole action involved raids of some 150 locations throughout the country, and resulted in 17 arre...

The hackers were active on a new internet forum
After the hacker forum was closed this March because four members, along with the site’s founder, were arrested on criminal charges, this week two teenagers, Zachary Woodham (19) and Louis Tobenhouse (18), from Brighton, UK nearly escaped jail. They pleaded guilty of hacking into online gambling and hosting websi...

Cornish newsagent takes home GBP345 253
A very lucky winner appeared this week at William Hill Online, hitting a jackpot of GBP 345 253 on Playtech-powered progressive slot Leprechaun's Luck.
The 44 year old Peter Brown, a newsagent in Torquay, Cornwall, played a GBP1 spin on the popular game and became one of the biggest winners of all times at William Hil...

SlotMagiX.com hits the market
It was announced this week that London-based RASR Entertainment has added a new online casino to its group. SlotMagiX.com will therefore join highly popular online bingo sites Golden Hat Bingo.com and Bingo Legacy.com.
According to the company spokesman, the new site’s offering includes blackjack, roulette

Full featured fruit machines developed by Unionjackpots
A novelty came this week to GTechG2’s online casino games portfolio – this time it’s a quartet of new fully featured fruit machine titles developed by Unionjackpots, which will be debuted at internet gambling ope...